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9/2019 1 Iowa and California: Agricultural Giants Farms, Food, Energy, Water and the Environment No. 1 and No. 2 states in Agricultural Production and Value
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Iowa and California:Agricultural Giants
Farms, Food, Energy, Water and the Environment
No. 1 and No. 2 states in Agricultural Production and Value
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Iowa Agriculture
IOWA IS AN AGRICULTURAL FORCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD
IN THE U.S., IOWA RANKS ONLY BEHIND CALIFORNIA IN CASH FARM RECEIPTS AND AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS
85% OF IOWA’S LAND MASS IS USED FOR AGRICULTURE
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Delaware2,500 Farms
510,000 Acres41% of land area in farms115,000 acres of land permanently preserved – 24%
$1.2 billion Ag SalesMultiplies to $6 to $7 billion to our state in economic activity
41% of Delaware’s Land Mass is in Farmland, coupled with forestland, 76% of Delaware is in Open Space
Iowa Farmers and Farm Income
• 87,500 farmers in Iowa till 30.5million acres.
• Delaware farmers till 490,000acres
• 92% of Iowa’s Cash FarmIncome comes from Corn,Soybeans, Pork and Beef
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Iowa Corn
• Iowa ranks first in cornproduction
• Iowa farmers harvest 13.1million acres of corn
• 2.5 billion bushels• $8.8 billion
• 203 bushels/acre – state avg.
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Iowa Soybeans
• Iowa ranks first in soybeanproduction
• 9.8 million acres• 553. 7 million bushels
• $4.8 billion
• 57 bushels/acre – state avg.
Iowa Pork
• Iowa ranks first in HogProduction
• 20.9 million hogs raisedannually
• 32% of nation’s porkproduction
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Iowa Eggs
• Iowa is the nation’s leadingproducer of eggs
• Iowa chickens laid 12.5 billioneggs last year
• 968 million dozen
Major Crop Acreage – U.S.
Acres HectaresCorn (Maize) 97,000,000 39,000,000 Soybeans 76,000,000 30,400,000Wheat 49,000,000 19,600,000Cotton 9,378,000 3,751,200
ALL Vegetables & Fruit 5,463,000 2,185,200*
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NATURAL ADVANTAGES IN IOWA
• 13% of US Corn Acreage• 12% of US Soybean Acreage• 32% of Pork Production• Ranks 2nd in all Red Meat
Production
• WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN INIOWA??
SOILS AND CLIMATE – PERFECT FOR CORN
• Loess – wind blown deposits ofsilt and clay
• Very fertile• High Cation Exchange Capacity
• CEC of 10 to 15• Delaware’s are maybe 3 to 5 at
best
• Moisture Holding Capacity• Soils keep rain
• Rainfall –• 24 to 36 inches/year
• Less rain as you go west
• Not super hot during thegrowing season
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Field Drainage and the Watershed
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Huge Agricultural Industry
• Seed• Ethanol• Meat Processing• Grain Export• Tractor and Machinery
• Manufacturer’s• Dealers to serve farmers
• Animal Genetics
• Agricultural Finance• Insurance
• Farm and Liability• Crop Insurance
• Agri-chemical• Manufacturing• Distribution
• Soybean Processing
Stine Seeds – 63% of Soybean Genetics in North and South America
Largest Family Owned Seed Company in the United
States –Harry Stine
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Land Values Appraised by a formula that connects corn yield potential to price/acre
Farmers pay $25 per acre for school tax
Farmers own about half of the land they till and rent the rest.
Beautiful Scene
Rural
Sense of Community
Agricultural Tradition and Heritage
A Farm Ethic
Stewardship
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What does 9/11 have to do with Iowa Agriculture?
War against Terrorism resulted – created a groundswell for energy security
Iowa Farmers and others worked hard to get ethanol mandated at 15% of gasoline blends
Ethanol – Corn –Renewable Energy
September 11, 2001
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43 Ethanol Plants in Iowa = 25% of Nation’s Ethanol – 4 billion gallons
• 40% of Corn Crop goes toanimal feed
• 40% to Ethanol• Remainder: Industrial use,
fructose
• Ethanol, coupled with otherrenewables, US is nowexporting oil
Iowa Ranks second among all states in agricultural exports
Exports $11 Billion of agricultural products annually
Ranking only behind California, which does $20 Billion of exports.
Difference – Iowa products are corn, soybeans, meat
California – Horticultural Crops, Milk, Cotton
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Iowa: Tradition and HeritageProgressive Agricultural
WHO IS THIS MAN?WHERE WAS HE BORN?
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Norman E. Borlaug
Father of the Green Revolution of the 1960s
Improved, Higher Yield Crop Varieties through Plant
Breeding
India and other countries became self-sufficient in grain
Production
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient in 1970
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Who are these famous Iowans?
Who are these famous Iowans?
Henry A. Wallace George Washington Carver
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Who is the man with the hat?Who is the man next to him with the white shirt?
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$47 Billion in Ag Sales – No. 1
California Agriculture is all About the Water!!
California
The Coastal Range
The Sierra Madres
Salinas Valley
Imperial Valley
Southern California
Napa Valley
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Water is getting expensive
Farmers grow crops that generate the most return relative to the cost of their water
Some farm families own water rights dating over 100 years old and their water is less expensive
California Ranks first in these Commodities
• Milk & Cream -$6.29 billion
• Almonds - $5.33 billion
• Grapes - $4.95 Billion• Lettuce - $2.26 Billion
• Strawberries - $1.86 billion
• Tomatoes - $1.71 Billion• Flowers & Foliage - $1.08 billion
• Walnuts - $977 million
• Hay = $945 million
• 77,500 farms• 27% of California farms
generate sales over $100,000
• 25.5 million acres• Average size of a farm is 329
acres, but some operations are50,000 acres of more
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Exports and Farm Labor
• Ag Exports• California exports 26% of its ag
production by volume• $21 billion in value
• Almonds• Dairy Products• Walnuts• Wine• Pistachios
• Cesar Chavez and the UnitedFarm Workers Union
• Bitter & at times – violentconfrontations
• Strikes• Minimum wage of $15/hour
California is the 10th largest general economy in the World
• It generates a larger gross domestic product than countries suchas Mexico, Canada, Italy, Saudi Arabia and many more
• Only the U.S. as a whole, China, India, Japan, Germany, Russia,Brazil, France, Indonesia and the United Kingdom have a largergeneral gross domestic product than the State of California
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Delaware2,500 Farms
510,000 Acres41% of land area in farms115,000 acres of land permanently preserved – 24%
$1.2 billion Ag SalesMultiplies to $6 to $7 billion to our state in economic activity
41% of Delaware’s Land Mass is in Farmland, coupled with forestland, 76% of Delaware is in Open Space
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95% of our tomato products come from California
Genetics, Ag Engineering, Plant physiology
Processing Tomatoes
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California & Iowa Take Home
• Tremendous Agricultural Production• Marketing and Infrastructure• Water and Water Quality Issues• California Dependent upon Water
• Tremendous Future• Iowa State University• University of California – Davis; or San Luis Obispo
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Port of Wilmington, Delaware
Economic Impact – Types of Cargoes
• Port opened in 1923• 400 ships/year – 6.5m tons/yr• Fruit, autos, dry and liquid
bulk, special cargoes
• 5,900 jobs• $436m in annual business
revenue
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Port Infrastructure
• 308 acres at the confluence of theChristina and Delaware Rivers
• 1st major port on the DelawareRiver, only 63 miles from theAtlantic Ocean – 4 hours
• 7 berths for ships, plus petroleumberth and Auto Roll on – Roll off –RoRo
• 6 warehouses for cold storage offruit
• 250,000 square foot warehousecovered for loading rail cars = 5+acres
Cargo Portfolio
• Fresh Fruit• Juice Concentrate
• Containerized Cargo• Vehicles
• Dry & Liquid Bulk• Steel and Forest Products• Wind Turbine components
• Livestock – Pregnant HolsteinHeifers
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Fresh Fruit
• Chilean Winter Fruit• # 1 Banana Port in the US
• Dole and Chiquita
• #1 for Fresh Fruit Imports• #1 for Moroccan clementines• Agentinian apples and pears• New Zealand Kiwifruit & apples• Peruvian Grapes• Cargo distributed as far as CA
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